Omsk
\ɔmsk\
The verdict
“Omsk” is uncommon French (frequency #96,200 among 1,642 “O” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #96,200
- frequency rank, French
- 1,642
- “O” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de Russie, capitale de l’oblast d’Omsk.
Corpus desk
Index FR-omsk · Omsk · French
Omsk · rank #96,200 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #96,200
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 1,642
- PHOTO-FINISH onto
Nearest frequency peer: onto (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Omsk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- offertoire
offertoire
3,805 corpus weight
- omble
omble
3,803 corpus weight
- Omsk
Omsk
3,801 corpus weight
- onto
onto
3,800 corpus weight
- opiacé
opiacé
3,798 corpus weight
- opposeraient
opposeraient
3,797 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Omsk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Omsk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɔmsk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #96,200 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Omsk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Omsk is uncommon French at frequency #96,200 among 1,642 “O” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɔmsk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville de Russie, capitale de l’oblast d’Omsk.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Omsk in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Omsk, spelled O-M-S-K.
Definition
- 1Ville de Russie, capitale de l’oblast d’Omsk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Omsk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Je suis chargé de veiller à votre installation, en attendant qu'un coupé puisse vous être réservé dans un des premiers trains — un des derniers serait plus exact — en partance pour Omsk.
Après Omsk, les escales rapides furent Irkoutsk, au bord du lac Baïkal, Oulan-Oudé et Tchita, à la frontière de la Mongolie.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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